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South Africa

• Strategic Leadership: Directed a global team in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis, providing critical insights that informed executive decisions and supported the company’s growth strategy.
• Financial Planning & Analysis: Enhanced the accuracy of financial forecasts by refining models, incorporating external market data, and developing scenario analyses that prepared the company for various market.
• Cost Optimisation: Led the FinOps function, analysing people and hosting costs, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing cost-saving measures, optimising the company’s financial resources.
• Performance Metrics: Developed comprehensive KPIs and dashboards to monitor financial performance across multiple regions, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Investment Evaluation: Evaluated and designed capital expenditure proposals using rigorous financial analysis techniques such as ROI, NPV, and payback period assessments to ensure alignment with corporate strategic.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Regularly presented financial results, forecasts, and strategic recommendations to the C-suite and board of directors, ensuring transparency and alignment with long-term business objectives.

• Financial Analysis & Reporting: Supported financial planning, budgeting, and reporting processes across multiple business entities, using advanced financial models, scenario modelling, and variance analysis to provide.
• Technology Integration: Implemented and maintained financial tools such as Magic Orange and IBM Planning Analytics, enabling the creation of bespoke financial models and advanced analysis.
• Cost Management: Developed and maintained financial models, dashboards, and reports that provided insights into cloud spending, hosting infrastructure costs, and optimisation opportunities, leading to significant cost.
• Automation & Efficiency: Streamlined financial planning and reporting processes by leveraging automation tools, improving efficiency and accuracy in financial operations.
• Strategic Insights: Delivered actionable insights and recommendations to business leaders, informing commercial negotiations and strategic decisions aligned with the company’s financial objectives.

Remote

• Portfolio Management: Collaborated with portfolio managers to construct and track multi-asset portfolios, performing detailed portfolio analysis and compiling capital performance reports for executive review.
• Economic Modelling & Analysis: Conducted economic modelling and assurance reviews for capital projects, including solar installations and new production facilities, ensuring projects aligned with strategic objectives.
• Automation & Digital Transformation: Led initiatives to automate financial reporting processes using Power Automate and Power BI, enhancing data visualisation and enabling more efficient decision-making.
• Investment Recommendations: Utilised quantitative and qualitative analysis to make informed investment recommendations, driving strategic decisions on capital applications and optimising portfolio performance.

Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa

• Boiler 8 factory acceptance testing: Facilitated the testing of Honeywell Experion C300 system. Including cabinet and wiring assurance. Performed site acceptance testing for plant installation. Provided solution to.
• Prepared project feasibility package for system migration plan at Catalyst Preparation Unit. Completed design to integrate the latest technology into control network.
• Drove upgrade of specification for wireless instrumentation network gateways. Improved assurance through the implementation of new datasheet specifications and template optimisation.
• Replacement of Zero Graded Lines at Bio Works Unit: Supporting project manager to review submitted designs, scope, schedules and costing received from engineering contractor in detailed engineering segment of the.
• Biosludge Injection into Gasifiers project: Performed HAZOP as C&I representative. SIL study/calculations to ensure implemented control loops meet safety integrity requirements for the process. QA/QC of installed.
• Performed QA/QC Engineering for projects in construction, this entails inspections of newly installed instrumentation, wiring, cable racking and control valves. Investigations were conducted on defective transmitters.

Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa

• Wrote control narrative for Refining Vacuum Distillation Unit.
• Split range control schemes implemented at Gas Liquor Separation Unit using the management of change process.
• Created and implemented a new control scheme for the automated interplant transfer of alcohol. Executed using OPC protocol and resulted in cost saving due to reduced flaring.
• Performed daily plant assurance and controller troubleshooting of DCS / SCADA systems. Also including RCI / RCA to resolve system or design issues. Driving continuous improvement of SHE, Quality, Reliability, and.
• Performed instrument maintenance of flow and level instrumentation as well as fire and gas equipment at Octene Unit. Through the identification, scoping, planning, scheduling, execution and review of instrumentation.
• Provided interface between installation contractors and project personnel during shutdown on SAFOL plant, to oversee the installation of new instrumentation. QC to ensure adherence to Sasol safety and instrument.

⇨ Participate in the hedging of the broker portfolio against the book of traders.⇨ Provide technical analysis reports on traded instruments for Globex360 Trading Academy.

South Africa

- Build, implement and manage Shopify store.- Performing marketing and advertising to build client base.- Creating and maintaining customer and supplier relations.- Logistics management.- Management of product listings including managing pricing, descriptions, and availability of product.- Identifying new opportunities including new areas of business.

Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Golden Key Society

Education record

Activities and Societies: Recipient of the Dux award

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Education record